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News from the games
august 24
- U.S. men's water polo wins silver - medalists include four UC Irvine alums, two UCLA alums
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 24 — Kidd helps U.S. men's basketball win gold
>Redemption achieved: U.S. men's basketball wins gold
- UC Irvine coach, UCLA alum Speraw and U.S. men's volleyball team brings home gold
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 24 — Bruins end Games with 15 medals
august 23
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 23 — Bruin alum Henderson helps U.S. women win 4x400 relay gold
- UC Santa Barbara alum Bown and U.S. women's volleyball wins silver medal
- UC Berkeley video feature with swimmers Godec, Dugonjic, Wilson
august 22
- U.S. men's water polo to play for gold – 3 UC Irvine alums score in 10-5 semifinal win over Serbia
> Hungary, U.S. to meet in water polo final (with photo gallery)
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 22 – Bruin alum Wright assists in water polo semis, Henderson helps U.S. women advance in 4x400 relay
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 22 – Kidd and U.S. men's basketball team will play for gold
- UC Berkeley alum Upshaw finishes eighth in long jump
- UC Irvine coach, UCLA alum Speraw and U.S. men's volleyball team to play for gold
august 21
- UC Berkeley alums Petri, Windes win silver medals with U.S. women's water polo team (as do UC Irvine's Hayes, UCLA's Golda and Hipp)
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 21 - Bruin alum Cheney wins gold in soccer; softball and water polo earn silver medals
> U.S. women's soccer wins second straight gold
- In softball stunner, Japan upsets U.S. for gold
- UC San Diego's Johnson finishes strong in kayak semifinal
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 21 - UC Berkeley alums win three silvers in water polo, softball
- UC Berkeley video feature: A look at the Olympic Village
- Forbes.com: America's Top 10 Olympic Schools (UC Berkeley 2, UCLA 5)
august 20
- UC Santa Barbara's Rogers, Dalhausser will play for beach volleyball gold
- U.S. softball defeats Japan in extra innings to reach gold medal game
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 20
- U.S. men's basketball team defeats Australia in quarterfinals
- U.S. men's water polo faces Serbia in semis Friday
- U.S. water polo teams prepare for medal round
August 19
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 19
- U.S. women's water polo defeats Australia, will play Netherlands for gold (with photo gallery)
- Comeback kids: Feature on U.S. men's water polo team
- UC San Diego's Johnson finishes fourth in kayak heat
August 18
- UC Berkeley's Coughlin makes history in pool with silver; she is first American woman ever to medal six times in a single Olympiad
> See NBCOlympics.com video of race
- UC Santa Barbara's Lezak anchors another gold medal relay, helps Phelps win record 8th gold of Beijing Olympic Games
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 18: Good results for Bruins in women's soccer, men's water polo, softball and track
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 18
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 17; Hunter wins gold in lightweight double sculls for Great Britain
- UC Berkeley's Cafaro wins gold with U.S. women's rowing 8
- UC Berkeley's Wetzel takes gold with Canada men's rowing 8
- UC Berkeley's Frandsen wins silver for Canada in men's rowing pair
- UC Irvine's Powers scores twice as U.S. men's water polo advances to semis with win over Germany
- UC Santa Barbara's Rogers, Dalhausser advance to men's beach volleyball semis
August 17
- UCLA's Youngs, Branagh ousted in beach volleyball by China
- UC San Diego alum Ertel finishes 19th in triathlon, hobbled by bad back
- Water polo to triathlon? It's no big deal for UC San Diego alum Ertel
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 17
August 16
- Milorad Cavic earns silver in 100 butterfly; former UC Berkeley standout falls by .01 second to Michael Phelps.
- San Francisco's Wildman-Tobriner fifth in 50 free
- UCLA Olympic roundup Aug. 16
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 16
August 15
- Beijing smog cleanup: Has it worked? (Time magazine interviews UC San Diego Scripps' Ramanathan)
- UC Santa Barbara's Rogers, Dalhausser come back to defeat Switzerland, advance to quarterfinals
- UC Irvine's Bailey, Hutten score in U.S. men's water polo win over Croatia
- UC Berkeley Olympic roundup Aug. 15
- San Francisco's Wildman-Tobriner qualifies for 50 free finals
- U.S. women's water polo team gets a pass to semis (with photo gallery)
- U.S. men's water polo loses to Serbia, faces Croatia Saturday
- U.S. softball team extends winning streak
- UC Irvine sampling air quality during Beijing Olympics
- UC Berkeley feature: Second-class workers behind China's construction boom